The '''Orthodox Church in America - Parishes in Australia''' is the grouping applied to the churches who, in 1971, left [[Diocese of Australia and New Zealand (ROCOR)|ROCOR]] and asked to be taken under the [[Orthodox Church in America|OCA]]'s protection. It is directly under the Metropolitan of the OCA (currently Metropolitan [[Herman (Swaiko) of Washington and New York|Herman]]), and has three churches in Australia.

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The '''Orthodox Church in America - Parishes in Australia''' is the grouping applied to the churches who, in 1971, left [[Diocese of Australia and New Zealand (ROCOR)|ROCOR]] and asked to be taken under the [[Orthodox Church in America|OCA]]'s protection. It is directly under the Metropolitan of the OCA (currently Metropolitan [[Herman (Swaiko) of Washington and New York|Herman]]), and has two churches in Australia. (The Bankstown parish in Sydney, comenced by Archimandrite Veniamin, is now part of the [[Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand]]

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Revision as of 11:15, January 5, 2006

The Orthodox Church in America - Parishes in Australia is the grouping applied to the churches who, in 1971, left ROCOR and asked to be taken under the OCA's protection. It is directly under the Metropolitan of the OCA (currently Metropolitan Herman), and has two churches in Australia. (The Bankstown parish in Sydney, comenced by Archimandrite Veniamin, is now part of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand